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A raw, unprocessed update
From August 8th, 2010 I recently realized that since coming out as Polyamorous, my sense of a cohesive self has finally manifested. That might sound a bit dramatic, but when you’ve lived your entire adult life feeling divided into the “good person” or the “bad person,” having those resolved into just “me” feels rather revolutionary. I never believed that anyone could love the whole me, including all of the messy negative stuff. So I sectioned off all of the things I perceived as bad (my tendency to cheat being chief among them) and only certain people got to see that part. Only those people who had engaged with me…
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Simple ideas, hard to live
I was recently talking to a friend of mine who was struggling with the end of a long and complicated relationship in his life. The relationship had taken many forms over the decade including romantic partner, best friend, roommate, co-dependent enabler, as well as polyamorous lover. This transition of their relationship was an especially hard one, because this time, it was trying to end all contact between him and the other person (with questionable rationale involved). In the course of talking and chatting and texting, I ended up sending one simple text that I think manages to summarize a lot of what I think about people interacting with each other,…
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Beginnings
David and I have tried to start a blog a couple of times now and it usually stalls out because I put too much pressure on myself to write something amazing and therefore write nothing. So in the name of “perfect is the enemy of the good,” I am going to begin by setting the bar spectacularly low for myself. Welcome to our little polyamory blog. I am going to write about my own experiences with polyamory as a white, cis, bi, kinky, 40-year-old, American woman. Sometimes I may share poetry or stories. I’d love to write some children’s books at some point. But mostly, I’d just like to commit…
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Welcome!
Hi, I’m David. And this is a space I’m excited to contribute to. 🙂